Exhibition 2011: Radical Shifts

Selected materials from the New School Archives relating to Radical Shifts: Reshaping the Interior at Parsons a 2011 exhibition produced by the archives and presented in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design.

Co-curated and designed by students from two Parsons' graduate programs in collaboration with the New School Archives, RADICAL SHIFTS explored the forces behind the changes in the 1950s and '60s that led Parsons to revamp its storied, long-running Interior Design program--with its focus on imparting "taste" and the ability to make impeccable reproductions of historical rooms for a high-end clientele--into a broader Environmental Design program that encouraged experimentation and socially-engaged design practice.